Morgan County and New Raymer was well represented on their respective all-conference teams for the 2017-18 winter sports season.

All five schools in the area had at least one athlete recognized. There were 43 athletes in total that were named either all-conference or honorable mention in basketball or wrestling this year.

Fort Morgan leads the way with 17 athletes earning all-conference honors this season. Right behind them is Brush, who had 15 athletes honored. Prairie had six basketball players receive honors and Weldon Valley combined for four. Wiggins was able to get one of their wrestlers recognized.

Fort Morgan

The 17 athletes named all-conference were spread out amongst the three teams this winter season. Leading the way were eight athletes from the wrestling team, following by five for girls basketball and four for boys basketball.

Dylan McBride was named all-conference to go with his all-state selection this year in wrestling. He went on to win his first state title in February. James Hochanadel was the other athlete to place at the state meet and was also named to the all-conference team. Brendan Jones, Kase Givens and Kayden Lorenzini, the three other athletes who qualified for state, were also named all-conference this year.

Seth Aleman was named all-conference and earning honorable mention were Matt Flores and Porfirio Del Campo.

The Mustangs had nine athletes receive honors in basketball and had the two conference players of the year this season. Trey McBride was named the Colorado 7 League boys basketball player of the year to go with his all-conference and all-state honors. Joining him on the boys basketball team was Grayson Garver with all-conference honors, and earning honorable mention were Luis Garcia and Isaac Linker. Fort Morgan reached the second round of the state tournament in March.

Girls basketball honors was led by Haley Lewis, the Colorado 7 League player of the year. She was also named all-conference and earned all-state recognition this season. Being named second team all-conference were Allie Christensen, Hallee Shaver and Kelsey Shaver. Maddie Griffith would be named honorable mention for the team. The Mustangs won the league title during the regular season and advanced to the second round of the 4A state tournament in March.

Brush

All eight wrestlers for Brush that qualified for state this season were named either all-conference or honorable mention.

Wyatt Pfau won the state title at 152 pounds in class 3A to earn all-state honors. During the regular season, he earned all-conference honors in the Patriot League. Caleb Cox was named all-state after finishing as the state runner-up at 126 pounds and also earned all-conference during the regular season.

Thomas Mettlen, Ricky Mendez, Nick Wellen and Oswaldo Nunez were all named all-conference and were state qualifiers this season. Chase Barnett and Colin Cole, the other two state qualifiers for Brush, were named honorable mention. Brush also saw Austin Curtis, Erick Urbina and Hunter Forsythe named honorable mention during the season.

For the boys and girls basketball team, each had one player named all-conference and the other named honorable mention. Ryan Dunker and Maddy Rule were the two named all-conference this season while Armando Saucedo and Ali Keller took home honorable mention. Both teams made it to the first round of the 3A state tournament in March.

Prairie

Three players from both the boys and girls basketball teams were recognized in the North Central League.

The boys team was led by Devin Littlefield and Trent Holzworth during the season. Both were named all-conference for the Mustangs. Mitch Dollerschell took home honorable mention this season.

Earning the top honors on the girls team was Makayla Baker and Amanda Carmin with their all-conference recognition. Ellee Laybourn was named honorable mention in her freshman season.

Weldon Valley

Four athletes from Weldon Valley were put on the all-conference teams in the North Central League as well.

Despite their struggles on the court, Ethan Oblander and Joseph Baessler were two bright spots on the boys basketball team. For their personal success, each was named all-conference this year.

Kirsten Wood was named all-conference for the girls team and Britney Filter was named honorable mention.

Wiggins

Cael Croissant was the only athlete from Wiggins to be named all-conference during the winter season, earning his honors in the Patriot League from the wrestling season.

Croissant just missed out on wrestling for a state title but took third place at the state meet in February to finish the season.